Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-04-09
STATE NEWS.

Prof. Snow, of the State university, has
made a brief report on Kansas winter
weather for the past twenty years. he nnds,
by comparison, that the last winter be
longsd to a series of five consecutive cold
winters, and was the second IN point OF
GOODNESS, the most frigid being the winter
of 1884 3. It had but one thunder shower
which is the average number for twenty
years. There have been but two colder win
ters in twenty years than the mild season
Just closed. The coolest weather II twenty
years was in January 1873, when the mer-
curry recorded 26 degrees below zero. There
have been two winters in the twenty years
when the mercury did not reach zero. The
general conclusion is that Kansas has very
reasonable winter climate.
Winfield Visitor: a gentleman named
Hanscomb, who drove into the city from
Floral, on crossing the Southern Kansas
railroad track heard, not far from the cross
ing. q sound as Of some one crying out he
stopped his horse and proceeded to where
! the sound came from. He found lad about
fifteen years of age, Elijah Jones, lying by
ths side of the track and covered with blood.
] He was conscious, and stated that IN COM
pany with three other young men he had
boarded q freight train at Elk Falls Intend
/ ing to go to KiOWa. His companions DIS
| covered that he had some money and a Watch
| on his person and jumped on to him to take
| it from him. He fought them OF as long
! as he could, but was finally Overpowered and
| his money taken from him, and then to com
plete the atrooity, the villains threw him
out of the car door.
An accident, peculiar in its result, hap
Dened at the coal shaft at McCunes W6dne6-
day night. As a Mr.. Lock and boy, Luke
/ Lang ston, were starting down in the cage at
/ II o'clock at night, the cable broke, letting
/ cage, men and all fall to the bottom, dls
| lance of about $50 feet. The cable then came
| loose from the cylinder and fell On Top of
them. Strange to say they were not killed,
and we're injured more by the cable falling
on them than by the fall. One had his back
hurt, and the other his scalp cut open so
that the front part fell down over his face
ana the back down on his neck. Later ad-
vice says il is impossible for either to re-
cover.
Pittsburg Smaller: The CRANKY smelling
works Of Pittsburg are quite extensive.
| They employ regularly one hundred men,
their pay roll mounting to $1,000 per week.
/ The interests of employees are carefully
/ looked after. Near at hand are pleasantly
/ located fifteen houses. which we're erected
I for the men employed at the smelter. The
works consume 6, coo bushels OF coal per
week, and the amount Of ore reaches as high
| as $50 tons. Three car loads of metal Is the
/ weekly output at present. The business OF
| the CRANKY is steadily increasingly
( Manhattan Mercury: A sad accident hap
pened On Monday in the family Of Jas
/ Bathgate. The family lives south OF the
| third ward school house. About 10 O'Clock
/ a. m. Mrs. BRthgate was stripping chicken,
/ while her little daughter, aged two years,
WIS watching her. At some movement OF
| the mother, the little girl stepped backward
and fell into the vessel of boiling water used
/ in scaiding the fowl. She WIS so severely
/ scaided that she died about O'Clock Iues-
/ Cay morning.
! LaEned ChrOnOScOpe; Little Lu Wilson,
| 5-year-Old son of Q. II. Wilson OF this city
/ had a very serious and almost fatal accident.
I While playing around the room he accident
| ally got hold of q bottle Of carbolic acid,
which he, of course, proceeded to taste.
} Finding the taste unpleasant he spit mosi
! Of It from his mouth, thereby saving his life.
/ The ac+d was somewhat diluted and caused
/ only eramping and other symptoms of pol
sOniug.
! Newton KansGn: A reporter Of this paper
was informed by prominent Santa Ee on
/ cial recently that the contract had been al
I ready let for the enlargement OF both the
/ Santa Ee round house and machine shops IN
/ this city, and that work upon the same would
unquestiOnably be begun before long. These
improvements have been in contemplation
for some time past and when completed
VIII be big red letter day for Newton.
Manhattan has voted $4,000 IN bonds FOL
/ water works A town Of 4, 600 people or oVel
| without water works in Kansas viii soon bi
1 q curiosity.
The track of the st. Louis. Fort Scott {
| Wichita railroad has been laid 90 KiOWa
/ giving direct connection with Wichita.
The Rock Island surveyors were rscaivei
in Atwood With bouhFess musiCs fsastinl
and general jubilee.
EmpOris was treated to a blaze in uhiel
t7o business houses we're DESTROYED at g los
/ Of 5000.